On 2016-08-11, Valeri Galtsev galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu wrote:
Dear Experts,
Could someone recommend a script or utility one can run from command line on Linux or UNIX machine to make a snapshot of webpage?
We have a signage (xibo) and whoever creates/changes content, likes to add URLs of some webpages there. All works well if these are webpages on our servers (which are pretty fast), but some external servers often take time to respond and take time to assemble the page, in addition these servers sometimes get really busy, and when response is longer than time devoted for that content in signage window, this window hangs forever with blank white field until you restart client. Trivial workaround: just to get snapshot (as, say daily cron job), and point signage client to that snapshot definitely will solve it, and simultaneously we will stop bugging other people servers often without much need for it.
But when I tried to search for some utility or script that makes webpage snapshot, I discovered that my ability to search degraded somehow...
Thanks for all your pointers!
Valeri
Not an answer to the question you asked, but maybe this is a job for a caching proxy server like squid?